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Most people occasionally summarize information when they report about a movie or the discussions of a meeting. Students often summarize course materials in order to understand and memorize them better. There are also professions where summarization tasks occur without being regarded as main activities, for instance in journalism. Reporters summarize, for instance, a parliamentary debate or the state of affairs in any other domain, say the financial situation of the national social security system. Researchers typically begin their papers by summarizing the state of knowledge, in order to make their own contribution more easily accessible to readers. In both professions it is advantageous to master the most important summarization techniques, but neither journalists nor researchers regard themselves as summarization professionals. Their main job is to find and to transmit knowledge. Non-specialist summarizing like theirs has been treated in the previous chapter.
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Endres-Niggemeyer, B. et al. (1998). Professional Summarizing. In: Summarizing Information. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72025-3_4
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